"Uneasy lay the head that wore a crown." The mountains of Cumberland--some of which form the background in the present view--are exceedingly numerous, lofty, and of striking conformation. Around the lakes they are often finely grouped, generally clothed with copse-wood: here pastoral, and dotted with flocks; and there rugged, precipitous, and hewn into deep ravines by those thundering torrents which convey their foaming tribute to the lakes. Every mountain in Cumberland has its name celebrated in poetry--every lake has been the subject of some inspired lyric; and such was the favour in which the charming scenery of this county was held by several of the master-spirits of the age, that the lakes of Cumberland and the adjoining county were adopted as their residence, and from their banks the strains of Wordsworth and Southey were welcomed as the genuine emanations of inspired minds. [Illustration: WHITEHAVEN, (with St. Bees-head.)] WHITEHAVEN, CUMBERLAND. "The town beneath, the sea before thee; Fruitful groves and flow'ry dells; Rocks and headlands tow'ring o'er thee, All behind thee--lakes and fells! "Look around thee, gentle stranger, On harvest fields and pastures green;-- In lands where thou hast been a ranger, Fairer hast thou ever seen!" The town of Whitehaven may be considered as a national monument to the creative influence of trade. Favoured by the geological character of its soil, and fostered by native industry, it has risen in the comparatively brief interval of a hundred and eighty years, to a position of eminence among the minor ports and harbours of Great Britain. What in the middle of the seventeenth century consisted, according to written testimony, of only six fishermen's huts and one small bark, is now a flourishing town, enlivened by trade and commerce, with a commodious harbour, extensive shipping, and enterprising merchants.